hello all,

I was just washing my car TC the other day and bam the paint just started peeling off the rear bumper. my first thought was i must have gotten rocks in the sponge or something then i noticed it started happening in other spots on the bumper i havent washed yet. so immmediately i called the dealer i usually take my car to in rockville,md and the service manager stated that he's seeing more tc come in for paint problems than any other car on his lot!! I baby and wash the hell out of my TC and its less than 1 year old.

is any one having paint peeling problems besides me.???

nope, never heard or had any tC's come in for that
are you sure nothing nicked it,scratched it or anything???
what dealer do you usually go to in rockville???

if you want, you can bring to me at Lakeforest Toyota in gaithersburg

sounds like they didnt properly clean off the mold release from the mold when they cast the bumper

Please post pix - I'd like to see that.

Scott

Yeah, please post some pics of your peeling paint. I've been hearing too much stories on paint issues. I hope I won't get a tC with paint problems.

dealer said he will fix it free of charge. 355 toyota is doing my car soon sorry lake forest you guys are good but 355 is closer to the job...will post pix soon.


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where the hand prints are in the pic is where the flaking started

Yea i see that happen to cars quite often in my work. What happens is the bumper isn't prepped properly before painting. Our bumpers are a rubber urethane, so there flexible. To get paint to stick to the rubber, an adhesion promoter is supposed to be sprayed on the bumper before any paint. Apparently, someone forgot that step.

take it in...can't see it that well from the pics, or at least i can't this early in the a.m.

I had this same problem! My paint just blew off when I sprayed it with a hose! But I could not get the dealer to fix it because they said I had to meat with the regional manager first and it would take a few months to get an appointment! So I scrapped the whole idea and am doing a bodykit instead!

i think that started happening to me. all over the car. ugh....

car is fixed and it didnt cost me a single dime.355 toyota did an excellent job

car is fixed and it didnt cost me a single dime.355 toyota did an excellent job

:doh:

they send it to the body shop, or did they have the on-site painter do it?

Post pix of the new paint when you can...

scott

I only had my tc since October and it has about 8 K miles on it and I am getting paint chips all over the place, and I baby this car, none of my previous cars had any paint issues and I beat them a lot harder

I used to live in PA - every car I owned had chips from the freakin' crap they put on the roads...

Yeah, I have complaints about the paint too. I guess be glad they're fixing it free of charge.

they had a painter come on site. the only problem now is getting rid of that paint smell but im not complaining. will post pics in a little while.

they had a painter come on site. the only problem now is getting rid of that paint smell but im not complaining. will post pics in a little while.

ok,good,,,,if the bodyshop had done it, that woulda been an issue
but since the on-site guy did it..your in good hands

Why is it an issue if the bodyshop had done it?

um, cuz they SUCK

I keep hearin the same thing from so many people,
I know that the paint just sucks for scions, but how do you know if it's a problem that
you have to take up with the dealership. I've had a couple of cars in the past and
never really took care of them but I also baby my tc and it just gets worse .In a couple of months I might have to just re-paint the front end. I would hate to think that the same thing is going to happen to me. :nails:

I keep hearin the same thing from so many people,
I know that the paint just sucks for scions, but how do you know if it's a problem that
you have to take up with the dealership. I've had a couple of cars in the past and
never really took care of them but I also baby my tc and it just gets worse .In a couple of months I might have to just re-paint the front end. I would hate to think that the same thing is going to happen to me. :nails:

taking it in,and having the dealer look at it wont hurt.
the worst that happens is they say no

Another thing... new cars sometimes get painted at the dealer up to a small amount of damage caused by transport. Sometimes the paint work is good... sometimes not. I think that's probably the cause of your problem. Its not very common for the factory to forget to put adhesion promotor on the bumper.

Its possible that the Scion's may seem to hagve higher rate of paint issues since they have a higher rate of possiblity of paint problems sue to their long overseas journey.

-Omar

Another thing... new cars sometimes get painted at the dealer up to a small amount of damage caused by transport. Sometimes the paint work is good... sometimes not. I think that's probably the cause of your problem. Its not very common for the factory to forget to put adhesion promotor on the bumper.

Its possible that the Scion's may seem to hagve higher rate of paint issues since they have a higher rate of possiblity of paint problems sue to their long overseas journey.

-Omar

if any damage was done during transport,it would be disclosed to the customer at time of purchase

not necessarily.. from what I've heard there's a limit on the amount of work that can be done before they ahve to tell you. Of course this coulf be mfg specific

not necessarily.. from what I've heard there's a limit on the amount of work that can be done before they ahve to tell you. Of course this coulf be mfg specific

it all has to be disclosed,but they may not mention it to u
but it is on file